Reversible cuff



Dec. 9, 1924. l 1,518,803

. J. l. MCDONALD REVERS I BLE CUFF Filed Deo. 6, 1925 2 sheets-sheet 1 Dec. 9, 1924. f 1,518,803

JI.MCDONALD REVERS I BLE' CUFF Filed Deo. 6, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Bec. 9, i924.

JOI-IN I. MCIDONALD, OF ST. JOS-EPH, MISSOURI.

REVERSIBLE CUFF.

Application ,filed December 6, 1923.- Serial No. 678,956.

T 0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1,.,JQHN I. McDoNALD, a citizen o-f the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible Cus, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to attached shirt cuffs of the folded or French variety and to the type of such cuffs known as reversible because the extreme half of the cuff may be worn folded either outwardly cr inwardly and in either position the appearance of the cuff remains the same.

The present cufl;l is complete on both sides, both its faces being finished alike. PrefY erably, as in this case, it contains one ply of interlining but this may be omitted or there may be additional plies if desired.

The complete cuff is attached to the sleeve of the shirt by a fly7 or intermediate strip which is stitched to the lowest ply of the cuff, that is, to the ply next to the arm when the cuff is folded outwardly; or it may be stitched if desired, through that ply and thcinterlining.

Buttonholes for the cuff links or fasteners are provided at proper points to register when the cu'lf is folded in either position and to hold the cuff closed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the cuff attached to a shirt sleeve and in its usual arrangement.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the cuff reversed.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3&3, Fig. 1; and

Figs. 4 and 5 are opposite views of the unfinished, partially stitched cuff, laid out flat, cert-ain parts being shown as folded back to expose the construction and arrangements of plies, interlining, and fly.

The cud has inner and outer pieces or plies of cloth 1, 2, usually of the same material as the shirt, a piece of whose sleeve appears at 3.

As illustrated, the plies 1 and 2 are each of a single thickness, and they are duplicates, being provided with rounded or square corners as desired.

Interlining 4 is provided which, as shown, comprises a single ply but additional plies could be used if desired.

The plies 1, 2, and interlining 4 -,are pre-fera-bly pressed into shape together, the i*edges of plies 1 and 2 being folded inwardly and crimped as at 5.

The three or more pieces thus described then go to the stitcher who removes the outer piece which becomes the ply of the cuff next to the wearers wrist and reverses it, placing it upon the other piece with the interlining inside, which latter arrangement is as shown in the drawings. It is only necessary then to stitch around the folded in and crimped edges of the plies and interlining. However, prior to this stitching operation, the single piece first removed has had stitched to it the fly 7.

The stitching connecting the plies 1, 2, and interlining 3, appears at 8. The stitch* ing connecting the fly 7 is shown at 9.`

The fly 7 is preferably a folded piece of the same material as the shirt and cuff, with folded in longitudinal edges 10, said fly being stitched at 9 to the inner ply 1 of the cuff along the folding line of said fiy. The line of stitching 9 is disposed away from the inner margin of the ply 1.

After the stitching of the iy 7 to the ply 1 has been accomplished, the plies 1 and 2 are stitched together at 8, as previously described.

The cuff is then provided with buttonholes 11 in the reversing half of the cuff registering with corresponding buttonholes 12 in the half of the cuff to which the fiy is attached. The buttonholes 12 are preferably located beyond the line of stitching 9.

The complete cuffl is now ready for attachment to the sleeve 3. By referring to Fig. 4, it will be observed that the fly 7 is left open so that the end of the sleeve t may be inserted therein. This having been accomplished, the fly 7 is stitched to the end of the sleeve 3 by the stitching 13.

The folding line of the cuff appears at 14.

In the claims, the word iinished7 has reference to an edge, formed in any manner, making it other than a raw edge; similarly, the word fold-over is intended to define adaptability for folding on top of, or under, when reversing the cuff, so thatl one part of the cuff is in superposed relation to the remaining part thereof, as in French cuffs.

I claim:

1. A. reversible, fold-over cuff provided With a Hy secured thereto nearer one end of the cuff than the other end thereof, said Hy being composed of plies which are finished at their free edges but left open to form a mouth adapted to receive, and to conceal, the raw edge of the shirt sleeve When the suff is being attached to said sleeve 2. The method of making a reversible fold-over cuff, Consisting in stitching together foldable plies to form a fo1dover cuff, separately forming a multi-ply Hy having a finished edge and an open, finished mouth, and securing said Hy to said cuff nearer one end of the cuff than the other end thereof in such manner as to hinge the Hy to the eu along one of the edges ofthe Hy and to leave the mouth of the Hy in the free part thereof so that said mouth Will loe adapted to receive, and to Conceal, the raw edge of a shirt sleeve When the cuff is be- 20 ,i

ing attached to said sleeve.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN I. MQDONALD. 

